After a while, Diana Shell He was tired of hearing the same story repeatedly.
He told the Tech Crunch, “Something will be bad for someone in work, and the story has always ended.” “They just gone, because doing something else was incredibly complicated and expensive.”
No one needs to see for a long time that for many people, finding legal facilities feels so difficult and complicated that many people do not try. Even for anyone with a coke -bite, it is difficult to go against their company.
She bothered the shell so much that in 2022, she launched, trying to make legal aid more accessible to workers.
The company is focused on employment law, and since its inception, it says, more than 12,000 workers have successfully brought complaints against employers and dialogue settlements.
Shell said, “Vela’s main article was,” If we can make tools that allow anyone to file a tax return from our mobile phone, of course, we can make something that can help them handle their legal issue. “
Vela platform enables users to collect their evidence, produce documents, and then talk to legal experts that will “coach” by what will be legal for every step of their case. For example, Shell said, the user can monitor the ongoing problem at work, draft a tribunal claim, and then buy a coaching package for preparation for preliminary hearing.
These days, like almost every other startup, the Wella uses AI to smooth the transfer of knowledge. “In our platform, the living engine works as a legal secretary in the background,” shell said. “It does everything from briefing the coach about the case, taking notes and measures during any call, and the development of the case, as well as lifting all admins and reminders.”
Investors like what they see in Vela: Today, the company said it collected a seed round of $ 2 million (about $ 2.7 million) headed by ADA Ventures. Investing by active partners and Portfolio Ventures as well as the Investor Tech Start and Resolution Foundation also invested.
Shell said Whala started using Generative AI in early 2023 and made a pair with an initial traction received by its products, which helped investors see the capacity of its products.
The company will use fresh capital to promote marketing, build relationships with worker unions and insurance, and build more AI features within the platform. After the job law, Shell said the company hopes to extend small claims and tenancy.
“Then we will expand other geography,” he said. “We are already seeing opportunities in the United States and Europe.”